Edrington v. Jefferson’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 770 · 1884
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1945
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Meyer v. Construction Co. · Railroad Company v. Koontz Railroad Company · Babbitt v. Clark
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act of Congress does not provide for the removal of a cause at the first .term at which a .trial -can be had on the issues, as finally settled by leave of the court or otherwisé, but at the first term at which the cause, as a cause, could be tried.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.